Papirnik, Vladimira

Ms. Vladimira Papirnik serves as Non-Executive Independent Director of KBC Groep N.V. She is Member of the Audit Committee; Member of the Risk and Compliance Committee and Nember of the Nomination Committee at the Company. She holds a Juris Doctor Degree (Northwestern University (US), 1982) and a combined Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in German and German Literature (Northwestern University (US), 1978). From 1982 to 1989 she was finance lawyer at the Hopkins & Sutter law firm in Chicago; from 1989 to 1995 she served as Partner in Hopkins & Sutter and in 1996 she joined the law firm of Squire Sanders as a Partner. Between 1996 and 2011 she was Managing Partner of the Prague office of Squire Sanders; from 2011 to June 2017 she was working for Squire Patton Boggs (formerly Squire Sanders) in both Prague and Chicago, focusing her international business practice on banking, project finance and corporate law (mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance) and she retired as of July 2017; 2012. From 1999 to 2008 she was Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Czech Republic; she was member of the Board of Trustees of the International School of Prague and head of its corporate governance committee for four years; she was also member of the Board of Trustees of the CMC School of Business for three years.

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